John D. Brey
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Truth is often said to be so simple it evades all but the simpleton. The Masoretes, in their attempt to codify the fact that their interpretation of the Torah text is more authoritative than the Christian interpretation of the Torah text, not only contaminate their interpretation, figuratively lobbing off their own head with the sword as they draw back to strike the Christians, but they do so in a manner that's scientifically verifiable as erroneous.
The Masoretic interpretation of the Torah text derives from the knowledge that there's another, perhaps *******, interpretation of the Torah text. The Masoretes set out to make their worldview, ideology, their Torah text generated cultural reality, the singular, canonical, or authoritative interpretation of the Torah text. But to perform this task they clearly and undeniably use their interpretation of the text as the feedback mechanism that has seminal authority over the root consonants, the uninterpreted Hebrew text. Which is an inversion of natural asymmetry whereby the tree grows out of the root, rather than the root taking its marching orders (it's seminal nature) from the tree it produces in natural asymmetry.
In the malfeasant sense of the Masoretic text, the interpretation, which should grow out of the Hebrew text, the root words, is instead used as the authoritative source feeding back into, like a male into a female, the very text which should itself have the seminal authority to determine the nature of the interpretation.
Now although the dynamics of the Masoretic approach to the text is indeed backwards, so far as a scientific approach to natural asymmetry is concerned (the root doesn't grow out of the tree), the Masoretic worldview is probably the most fundamental, and authoritative, revealer of the fact that there's a genuine flaw in the natural asymmetrical order of things (there's a genuine flaw in the belief that the tree can only grow out of the root, and not vice versa). And to the degree that it's true that the Masoretes are caught between hyper-biblical cross-currents, or even cross-members, we're handed a paradox of genuinely biblical proportions, to the degree we're willing to try to untangle the Gordian knot that's the paradoxical nature of the Masoretes' bizarre syzygy.
The text above was built upon arguments in the thread, Freewill and Culture: The Prism for Perception. Nevertheless, the statements above appear to segue into a topic as important, or likely more so, than anything yours truly has ever posted in the forum. If I'm not mistaken the statements in the quotation above, lend themselves to an understanding of Judaism that cuts deeper than anything I've encountered in my study of Judaism and the religious texts that make up Judaism. For that reason I've started this thread to focus wholly on the points being made in the quotation above.
Since the statements in the quotation, particularly the last paragraph, are somewhat obscure, or esoteric, I'll first try to re-phrase them in layman's terms.
John